Yonggao Yan

6.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
101 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Yonggao Yan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yonggao Yan has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Materials Chemistry, 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 34 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yonggao Yan's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (97 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (45 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (32 papers). Yonggao Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (97 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (45 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (32 papers). Yonggao Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yonggao Yan's co-authors include Xinfeng Tang, Xianli Su, Ctirad Uher, Qingjie Zhang, Hongyao Xie, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Wei Liu, Wenjie Xie, Terry M. Tritt and Shiqiang Hao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yonggao Yan

99 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Unique nanostructures and enhanced thermoelectric performance of melt-spun BiSbTe alloys

2009 511 citations Xinfeng Tang, Yonggao Yan et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
Rhombohedral to Cubic Conversion of GeTe via MnTe Alloying Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Electronic Band Convergence, and High Thermoelectric Performance

2018 360 citations Zheng Zheng, Xianli Su et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
High thermoelectric performance in Bi_0.46Sb_1.54Te₃ nanostructured with ZnTe

2018 333 citations Xianli Su, Shiqiang Hao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yonggao Yan China	35	5.1k	2.3k	1.4k	666	416	101	5.3k
Andrew Muto United States	5	5.4k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.5×	742 1.1×	518 1.2×	6	6.0k
Fu Li China	32	4.5k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	804 1.2×	335 0.8×	127	4.9k
Mona Zebarjadi United States	29	4.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	663 1.0×	302 0.7×	87	4.5k
Chun‐I Wu United States	17	6.5k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	461 1.1×	23	6.7k
Tian‐Ran Wei China	41	5.0k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	985 0.7×	625 0.9×	224 0.5×	104	5.3k
Zhensong Ren United States	21	4.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	824 1.2×	264 0.6×	42	5.0k
Guoqiang Liu China	39	3.9k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	874 0.6×	682 1.0×	238 0.6×	181	4.4k
Yaniv Gelbstein Israel	51	4.9k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	921 0.7×	1.1k 1.7×	312 0.8×	128	5.1k
Fu Guo China	20	3.0k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	837 0.6×	636 1.0×	238 0.6×	135	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yonggao Yan

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Wang, Yuting, Dongwang Yang, Dan Li, et al.. (2025). Thermally enhanced substrate design for flexible thermoelectric devices via ultrasonic welding. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(9). 6493–6501.

Li, Junhao, Dongwang Yang, Yutian Liu, et al.. (2024). High efficient personal thermoregulatory device: Metallized interface layer between flexible polyimide substrate and foam copper heat sink enables thermal resistance reduction. Applied Materials Today. 37. 102139–102139. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Yutian, Dongwang Yang, Junhao Li, et al.. (2024). Integrated micro thermoelectric devices with self-power supply and temperature monitoring: Design and application in power grid early warning. Applied Thermal Engineering. 247. 122922–122922. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Jiang, Kai Hu, Junhao Li, et al.. (2024). Thermoelectric energy extraction in motion scenarios: Self-powered temperature and pressure detector in an automobile tire. Chemical Engineering Journal. 487. 150639–150639. 4 indexed citations

Yao, Lei, et al.. (2023). Laser-induced Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis of Skutterudite. Journal of Inorganic Materials. 38(7). 815–815. 1 indexed citations

Li, Zhenming, et al.. (2023). Hygrothermal Stability of Bi₂Te₃-based Thermoelectric Materials. Journal of Inorganic Materials. 38(7). 800–800. 4 indexed citations

Lv, Pengfei, Min Hong, Hongyao Xie, et al.. (2021). Native Atomic Defects Manipulation for Enhancing the Electronic Transport Properties of Epitaxial SnTe Films. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(47). 56446–56455. 9 indexed citations

Luo, Jiangfan, Wei Liu, Zhaohui Wang, et al.. (2021). Strong Anisotropy and Bipolar Conduction-Dominated Thermoelectric Transport Properties in the Polycrystalline Topological Phase of ZrTe₅. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(12). 8890–8897. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Jian, Cheng Zhang, Ting Zhu, et al.. (2021). Mechanical Properties and Thermal Stability of the High-Thermoelectric-Performance Cu₂Se Compound. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(38). 45736–45743. 27 indexed citations

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Li, Junjie, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of Bi_0.46Sb_1.54Te₃ Nanostructured with CdTe. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(23). 26330–26341. 30 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xin, Zhi Li, Yonghui You, et al.. (2019). Role of Cation Vacancies in Cu₂SnSe₃ Thermoelectrics. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(27). 24212–24220. 36 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cheng, Zhi Li, Min Zhang, et al.. (2019). Synergistically Improved Electronic and Thermal Transport Properties in Nb-Doped Nb_yMo_1–ySe_2–2xTe_2x Solid Solutions Due to Alloy Phonon Scattering and Increased Valley Degeneracy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(29). 26069–26081. 12 indexed citations

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Sun, Jinchang, Xianli Su, Yonggao Yan, et al.. (2019). Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance of n-Type PbSe through Forming Solid Solution with PbTe and PbS. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(1). 2–8. 34 indexed citations

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Xie, Hongyao, Xianli Su, Shiqiang Hao, et al.. (2019). Large Thermal Conductivity Drops in the Diamondoid Lattice of CuFeS₂ by Discordant Atom Doping. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(47). 18900–18909. 95 indexed citations

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Wang, Si, Xianli Su, Trevor P. Bailey, et al.. (2019). Optimizing the average power factor of p-type (Na, Ag) co-doped polycrystalline SnSe. RSC Advances. 9(13). 7115–7122. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Si, Si Hui, Kunling Peng, et al.. (2018). Low temperature thermoelectric properties of p-type doped single-crystalline SnSe. Applied Physics Letters. 112(14). 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tingting, Xianli Su, Junjie Li, et al.. (2018). Structure and Improved Thermoelectric Properties of Ag_2xCr_2–2xSe₃ Compounds. Inorganic Chemistry. 57(19). 12125–12131. 6 indexed citations

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Yan, Yonggao, et al.. (2018). Fabrication and Thermoelectric Properties of n-Type CoSb_2.85Te_0.15 Using Selective Laser Melting. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(16). 13669–13674. 41 indexed citations

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Zheng, Zheng, Xianli Su, Constantinos C. Stoumpos, et al.. (2018). Rhombohedral to Cubic Conversion of GeTe via MnTe Alloying Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Electronic Band Convergence, and High Thermoelectric Performance. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(7). 2673–2686. 360 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Dongwang, Xianli Su, Yonggao Yan, et al.. (2017). Interpreting the Combustion Process for High-Performance ZrNiSn Thermoelectric Materials. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(1). 864–872. 24 indexed citations

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